In a comment on my recent post Pelosi, Schumer & the DNC: Their Time Machine Is Stuck In the Past, JoelDanWalls posted the following:
It’ll be a lot easier to take your arguments seriously when you quit reserving your ire and contempt for the people who are trying to stop the GOP from destroying what remains of the American republic.
I started a reply, and it grew.
Here it is.
Read on.
It would be a lot easier to “take [my] arguments seriously” if you realized that my ire and contempt are bipartisan in nature. I reserve them for the people who are presently destroying what remains of the American republic and doing a damned good destruction job on the environment of the earth while they are at it. Democrats and Republicans.
For example. (Only one of many possible examples…total, bipartisan, monetarily-enforced corporate control of the government being the most serious.):
War.
Have you any idea of the amount of pollution that is spewed out by the militaries of this world.? Even in peacetime, if such a thing actually exists today?
The U.S military is the worst of all of them.
Check it out, loyal Democrat. Check out what happened when Obama had a Democratic House and Senate during the first two years of his first term. (See below for the sickening details.)
A vote for war…war often waged under totally false pretenses as were the Iraq, Vietnam and Korean debacles…is a vote against the environment. A vote for massively overfunding the military, a vote for allowing the military industrial complex to vastly overcharge on second-rate goods, a vote for allowing the intelligence system to wage secret wars all over the world? They are all votes against the environment. A compromise with warmakers in the name of “pragmatic politics?” Same same.
When the environment of the entire earth is at stake? The phrase “World War” takes on a whole new meaning.
War on the Earth!!!
Bet on it.
AG
P.S. I got your “Peace President.” Right here!!! Facts, not fictions…and the following is just a list of U.S. overt military actions 2009-2010. As bloated as is the U.S. intelligence/Special Forces/private military contractors system, I do not believe that anybody could succeed in making a complete list of its skullduggery. Not in any year.
2009-Terrorism threat/Afghanistan/Iraq/Kosovo. On June 15, 2009, the President sent to Congress, “consistent with the War Powers Resolution,” a supplemental consolidated report, giving details of “ongoing contingency operations overseas.” The report noted that the total number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan was “approximately 58,000,” of which approximately 20,000 are assigned to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. The United States continues to pursue and engage “remaining al-Qaida and Taliban forces in Afghanistan.” The United States also continues to deploy military forces in support of the Multinational Force (MNF) in Iraq. The current U.S. contribution to this effort is “approximately 138,000 U.S. military personnel.” U.S. military operations continue in Kosovo, as part of the NATO-led KFOR. Presently the United States contributes approximately 1,400 U.S. military personnel to KFOR. In addition, the United states continues to deploy “U.S. combat-equipped forces to help enhance the counterterrorism capabilities of our friends and allies” not only in the Horn of Africa region, but globally through “maritime interception operations on the high seas” aimed at blocking the “movement, arming and financing of international terrorists.”
Terrorism threat/Afghanistan/Iraq/Kosovo. On December 5, 2009, the President sent to Congress “consistent with the War Powers Resolution,” a consolidated report, giving details of “global deployments of U.S. Armed Forces equipped for combat.” The report detailed “ongoing U.S. contingency operations overseas.” The report noted that the total number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan was “approximately 68,000,” of which approximately 34,000 are assigned to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. The United States continues to pursue and engage “remaining al-Qaida and Taliban forces in Afghanistan.” The United States has deployed “various combat-equipped forces to a number of locations in the Central, Pacific, European, Southern and African Command areas of operation” in support of anti-terrorist and anti-al-Qaida actions. The United States also continues to deploy military forces in Iraq to “maintain security and stability” there. These Iraqi operations continue pursuant to the terms of a bilateral agreement between the United States and Iraq, which entered into force on January 1, 2009. The current U.S. force level in Iraq is “approximately 116,000 U.S. military personnel.” U.S. military operations continue in Kosovo, as part of the NATO-led KFOR. Presently the United States contributes approximately 1,475 U.S. military personnel to KFOR. In addition, the United States continues to deploy “U.S. combat- equipped forces to assist in enhancing the counterterrorism capabilities of our friends and allies” not only in the Horn of Africa region, but globally through “maritime interception operations on the high seas” aimed at blocking the “movement, arming and financing of international terrorists.”2010-Terrorism threat/Afghanistan/Iraq/Kosovo. On June 15, 2010, the President sent to Congress, “consistent with the War Powers Resolution,” a consolidated report giving details of “deployments of U.S. Armed Forces equipped for combat.” The report noted that the total number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan was “approximately 87,000,” of which over 62,000 are assigned to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. The United States continues combat operations “against al-Qaida terrorists and their Taliban supporters” in Afghanistan. The United States has deployed “combat-equipped forces to a number of locations in the U.S. Central, Pacific, European, Southern and African Command areas of operation” in support of anti-terrorist and anti-al-Qaida actions. The United States also continues to deploy military forces in Iraq to “maintain security and stability” there. These Iraqi operations continue pursuant to the terms of a bilateral agreement between the United States and Iraq, which entered into force on January 1, 2009. The current U.S. force level in Iraq is “approximately 95,000 U.S. military personnel.” U.S. military operations continue in Kosovo, as part of the NATO-led KFOR. Presently, the United States contributes approximately 1,074 U.S. military personnel to KFOR. In addition, the United States continues to “conduct maritime interception operations on the high seas” directed at “stopping the movement, arming and financing of international terrorist groups.”
Terrorism threat/Afghanistan/Iraq/Kosovo. On December 15, 2010, the President submitted to Congress “consistent with the War Powers Resolution,” a consolidated report, detailing “deployments of U.S. Armed Forces equipped for combat.” The report noted that the total number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan was “approximately 97,500” of which over 81,500 were assigned to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. The United States is continuing combat operations “against al-Qaida terrorists and their Taliban supporters” in Afghanistan. The United States has deployed “combat-equipped forces to a number of locations in the U.S. Central, Pacific, European, Southern and African Command areas of operation” in support of anti-terrorist and anti-al-Qaida actions. In addition, the United States continues to conduct “maritime interception operations on the high seas in the areas of responsibility of the geographic combatant commands” directed at “stopping the movement, arming and financing of international terrorist groups.” The United States also
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continues to deploy military forces in Iraq in support of Iraqi efforts to “maintain security and stability” there. These Iraqi operations continue pursuant to the terms of a bilateral agreement between the United States and Iraq, which entered into force on January 1, 2009. The current U.S. force level in Iraq is “approximately 48,400 U.S. military personnel.” U.S. military operations also continue in Kosovo, as part of the NATO-led KFOR. The United States currently contributes approximately 808 U.S. military personnel to KFOR.
P.P.S. “Terrorism threat!!!???” The vast majority of successful attacks on the U.S. population during the post-9/11 years have been committed by American citizens!!! Yeah, yeah…I know…”If we don’t fight them there we’ll have to fight them here!!!” I call bullshit.
An old beatnik joke:
A beatnik type never stops snapping his fingers unless he’s asleep. Eventually he’s arrested for disturbing the peace at some movie theater. They take him in for questioning and decide he must be crazy, so they bring in a psychiatrist to interview him.
Psychiatrist: Why do you insist on continuing to snap your fingers?
Beatnik: I’m keeping the elephants away.
Psychiatrist: That’s ridiculous!!! There are no elephants around here.
Beatnik: Yes indeed. From your lips to God’s ears. It’s working very well, isn’t it.
Like dat.
